In a valley, a hot spring is emitting steaming heat, dispelling the coldness of winter.
The heat of the hot springs rises into the air, melting the snowflakes that have not yet fallen into a drizzle of light rain. The light rain falls and cleans the branches and leaves of the vegetation in the valley, making them spotless and glowing with vibrant greenery.
This is a paradise that is isolated from the severe cold.
Next to the hot spring, surrounded by several large banyan trees with luxuriant branches, a large tree house made of countless aerial roots and twisted knots stands in this spring-filled valley.
Du Kang walked into the tree house through the doorless opening. He saw that the indoor space was clean and spacious. In addition to the main hole behind the door, there were several relatively private small holes. The holes on the top and sides of the tree house were specially left to let the outside world in.
A lot of light shines in, keeping the room from being too dark.
The floors, walls and roof made of tangled aerial roots occasionally grow leaves and small flowers bloom, adding vitality to this tree house.
"This tree house should have been generated by magic, but I haven't seen this kind of ability to control plants in the wild boar monster. Either they asked other monsters to help build it, or they stole this place."
"Eh? Why should I say that? Of course such a good place can only be lived by virtuous people. The wild boar demon family cannot live there. After all, it is because virtue is not suitable for them."
After releasing the corpses of a litter of wild boar demons from their stomach pouches, they finally returned to their home, and the family was neatly arranged on the floor.
"Come on, my children, your old father is hungry."
Du Kang took out the barbecue tools and seasonings from his stomach, found a place with better light in the tree house and lay down, took out a map and started writing and drawing on it.
The five-element demon boy who had feasted flew out of his body and started happily busy in the tree house.
The young Five Elements Demon Boy has no concept of work in his mind and is very active no matter what he does.
The white-faced boy emitted sword energy and cut the wild boar demon's body back and forth. In just a moment, the wild boar's fur, muscles and bones were separated, and each piece of meat was modified with a knife edge.
The green-faced boy came to the fire pit, and as the green light shone, the banyan tree's aerial roots squirmed on the ground, and two barbecue stands protruding from the ground grew.
The red-faced boy took the pine wood from Du Kang's stomach and moved it to the fire pit. When he opened his mouth and spit it out, the flames were ignited.
Next, the three demons worked together to marinate the meat, skewer it, grill it, and apply seasonings. After one round of roasting, they put the meat into a large wooden basin in front of Du Kang, and then continued to roast the next round. They were very busy.
Very happy.
This kind of scene is the norm these days. Du Kang also accidentally discovered that the Five Elements Demon Boys were actually lively and active children, so he handed over the responsibility of barbecue to them, so that they could experience it in advance during their childhood.
The joy of work.
Taking a big mouthful of fat and thin barbecue, Du Kang frowned as he looked at the map in front of him.
This is a simple map of Cangyun Ridge, which he bought for five taels of silver in Tonggu County. On it, he used various symbols to mark locations where there were rumors of monsters.
Nowadays, most of the marks near Tonggu County on this map are marked with a cross.
Facts have proved that the rumors are indeed unreliable. Maybe there have been monsters in these places, but the monsters may just be passing by. Even if they have lived here for a long time, they may have moved away or died due to the dangerous monster life.
For example, this wild boar demon has a family of ten.
In these busy days, Du Kang only killed four kinds and five monsters, including the red-eyed white bear, the wind-chasing tiger, the four-colored deer, and the long-tusked wild boar, as well as eight wild boar cubs as big as calves.
He had already checked out most of the marked places near Tonggu County. The rest of the places were either suspected of being haunted by a big demon, or Du Kang saw the aura of the big demon from a distance and turned around and retreated.
There is not enough information to go deeper into Cangyun Ridge, and it would be too dangerous to enter rashly.
Du Kang never thought that one day he would be troubled by the fact that there were too few monsters in the mountains. These few alone were really not enough to eat.
After practicing the Three Heads and Six Arms method, Du Kang's digestive ability was greatly enhanced.
At this time, all the wild boar meat had been roasted and piled in the big basin in front of Dukang, forming a mountain of barbecue that was higher than Dukang.
The two wild boar demons killed today each weighed two thousand kilograms. Even after removing the bones, internal organs, and fur, the two together weighed two thousand six hundred kilograms of demon meat, plus the eight wild boar cubs weighed more than two thousand kilograms.
Half a kilogram of demon meat is enough to meet the meat consumption of Tonggu County in one day.
But after the meat is roasted, with Du Kang's current digestion speed, he can finish it in one night.
This situation was something Du Kang had never thought of before he set out. He always felt that there were monsters wherever he went. Only when he went to the mountains did he realize that monsters also need to eat. The ecological chain composed of limited plants, animals, and spiritual energy can only support a limited number of people.
monster.
Just when Du Kang was distressed, a rough and hoarse voice suddenly sounded in the air outside the house.
"Brother Zhu, are you having a barbecue at your house? I can smell the aroma of meat from afar. Please let me have a piece of it."
This sound moved very fast. It was still far away when it first appeared, but it was very close to the tree house when it said it wanted to eat a piece.
Du Kang's heart moved. He looked around at the mess in the house. He waved his hand and put the fur and bones on the ground into his stomach. He stretched out his hand and pointed at the three children. In the eyes of outsiders, they had turned into three wild boar piglets, and he suddenly turned into one.
A huge wild boar demon.
He directed the three wild boar cubs to go to a small cave on the side and sleep soundly, while Du Kang sat cross-legged on the spot and picked up a piece of pork and stuffed it into his mouth.
Thumping.
A black crow rushed into the tree house through a small hole in the roof, landed directly on the barbecue mountain, and pecked at the top piece of pork loin.
"Brother Zhu, I happened to catch up with your family to eat meat. I, the Crow Pioneer, am in for a treat."
This Crow Pioneer is only the size of a normal crow, but those who can become demons must be different from ordinary people. The sharp claws tear off a piece of the tenderloin with one scratch, and the bird's beak swallows the piece of meat into its belly. Only then does it look towards the person.
The wild boar monster is immersed in eating at the side.
In Crow Pioneer's eyes, he was strong and strong, with shiny fur. Brother Zhu was looking at him with a piece of fat in his mouth. In fact, Du Kang, who was sitting cross-legged, was tense, ready to make an attack at any time and took it.
bird head.
The illusion of the mirror mirror can only be done in the illusion when the subject's senses are completely deprived of the subject's senses and the other person is turned into a brain in a vat. However, illusions based on the real world also need the support of reality.
There is a huge difference in body size between humans and the pig demon. In order to imitate the pig demon's eating movements, Du Kang could only sit cross-legged and grab the barbecue with his hands in order to avoid any mistakes in the interaction between illusion and reality.
"Isn't sister-in-law at home?" Crow Xianfeng asked casually when he noticed that only Brother Zhu was in the tree house, and a few looming little piglets could be seen in another small hole.
"It's winter, and there are fewer animals nearby. It went out to hunt for some meat and came back." Du Kang replied with a dull sound unique to wild boars.
"Hey! It's not easy to have many children. If it were me, this pile of meat would be enough for me to eat for a year. Brother Zhu, let's not talk too much. The king of my family sent me to deliver invitations to the brothers in Cangyun Ridge.
, his old man is going to hold a plum appreciation banquet, and any little demons he has dealt with before can come and have a drink."
The King of Crows? The King of Crows from the Dark Cloud Territory?